Monthly Archives: September 2016

Corporate Pilots Found to Skip Safety Checks on 18% of Flights.      Corporate pilots routinely take off without performing required safety checks, a study of thousands of flights by a trade group has found. Prompted by the 2014 crash of a corporate jet at Hanscom Field near Boston that killed billionaire Lewis Katz, which […]

SpaceX Rocket Explodes at Launchpad in Cape Canaveral.       A spectacular explosion of a SpaceX rocket on Thursday destroyed a $200 million communications satellite that would have extended Facebook’s reach across Africa, dealing a serious setback to Elon Musk, the billionaire who runs the rocket company. The blast is likely to disrupt NASA’s cargo […]